Name The Year: Freddie Mercury, singer, born.?

Questions

----------- is the only country in the Middle East that does not have a desert.?

Located 137 miles north of Rome, ------------- is the oldest and one of the smallest republics in the world.?

Located in the Indian Ocean just north of the equator, ---------- had a highly developed civilization as early as the fifth century B.C.?

Translation of ------------- is "beautiful country".?

The state of ---------- was once known as the "Earmuff Capital of The World". Earmuffs were invented there by Chester Greenwood in 1873.?